A Disastrous Start, but Fluffy Creatures Everywhere

[It's editing time again. Thanks once more for all your support, my dears~]

As an overworked office drone, Bai Yao is a die-hard fan of fluffy animals.

She has two dreams: to make a fortune and to fill her home with adorable fluffballs.

Unfortunately, the road to her dreams is a little bumpy. While feeding stray cats, Bai Yao fell and broke her leg. Before she had even recovered, she transmigrated to a strange and savage world of beastfolk.

The good news: fluffballs are everywhere.

The bad news: the original owner of this body was a spoiled young lady with terrible relations with the beastfolk. Now her tribe is on the verge of extinction, and she is being sent to the Broken Horn Plains.

The strongest fighter among the remnants of the leopard tribe, the black leopard A Ling, was handpicked by the original owner's parents as her "golden support."

But before the tribe fell into decline, the original owner had discriminated against her terribly, bullying and insulting her, pushing her aside at every turn, and even ruining her prospects.

Bai Yao: What a disastrous start...

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New to this place, Bai Yao carefully works to mend her relations with the beastfolk.

On the migration, she uses her knowledge to teach the tribe how to make fire, prepare medicine, and catch fish...

A Ling, the black leopard who had always ignored Bai Yao as if she were air, starts secretly paying attention to her without realizing it.

Can this really be the same leopard tribe holy maiden who used to be so arrogant and willful? Why has she changed so much since leaving the royal court?

But back then... A Ling hadn't wronged her, had she?

After reaching their new home, the leopard tribe follows Bai Yao's lead, building houses, clearing land and planting crops, raising poultry, and smelting iron to forge weapons. They regain their footing on the plains.

Little by little, Bai Yao becomes the undisputed young leader of the entire leopard tribe.

Word spreads that the leopard tribe newly arrived on the plains is incredibly powerful. Even the vultures, who once swaggered on the peaks, have been defeated by them. The other small tribes, long oppressed by the vultures, hear the news and flock to join the leopard tribe.

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Bai Yao gets the tribe thriving, and life grows better by the day.

She never has to worry about money again, and fluffballs are everywhere around her, ready to be petted to her heart's content.

There's just one thing: she always feels a scorching gaze on her.

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At last, one day, in her beast form, she finds someone holding her paw and petting it without letting go.

A Ling: I don't like you always petting other people.

Bai Yao: ...Huh?

[Reading Guide]: This story is full of author's inventions, so please don't take it too seriously. I hope all my dear readers enjoy it.

Thanks to my friend for the cover!!!

Coming Next

My next book, My Sister-in-Law Keeps Trying to Win Me Over [Book Transmigration], is open for preorders.

Song Wei'an read a villainess revenge novel called The Phoenix Sings to the Heavens.

The heroine, Shen Lingyi, goes from losing her family to taking revenge on her enemies, planning every step and striking without mercy, gaining something with each victory and losing something in turn. In the end, her victory is as bitter as defeat. Her home is empty, and not a single person remains by her side to talk to.

Song Wei'an sighed and went to sleep. When she woke, she had transmigrated into the novel as Song Wanyun, the spoiled, domineering, stupid, wicked little sister-in-law who gets casually killed off in the heroine's climactic revenge.

The moment she opened her eyes, a faint smell of blood reached her nose.

Looking down, she saw herself in a goose-yellow brocade dress, her fingertips stained with balsam flower juice, gold and jade jangling on her wrists. She was the picture-perfect little sister-in-law who didn't know when to quit.

But outside the door, a massacre was already underway.

A measured tread approached. A long sword dragged across the flagstones, accompanied by the steady drip, drip of water.

Song Wei'an hid beneath the bed, clamping a hand over her mouth and too terrified even to breathe.

In the dead silence, the System chattered something in her ear... Change the main plot. Rewrite the ending.

Song Wei'an: ...Me?

But I don't think I'll survive the night.

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Shen Lingyi, legitimate daughter of the Shen family in Yanjing, came from a family whose restaurant, Drunken Immortal House, was famous across the region.

She should have been a young proprietress who never lifted a finger, but the Song family, long thought to be her friends, secretly betrayed her. Her entire family was killed or scattered, and Drunken Immortal House changed hands overnight.

The Song family patriarch pretended to be devoted, played the rescuer, and married her, then greedily swallowed up all her family fortune.

Shen Lingyi knew everything. For three years, she endured it all, waiting to uproot the entire Song family and leave not one survivor.

She would take back everything that belonged to the Shen family, with interest.

On the day her revenge was complete, Shen Lingyi stood with her bloodstained sword, her expression ice-cold.

Her little sister-in-law, who was usually so arrogant and obnoxious, suddenly rushed into her arms with red-rimmed eyes, crying inconsolably: "Sister-in-law, I'm scared... Don't leave me... You're all I have..."

Shen Lingyi: ?

The hand holding the sword paused for a moment, then gently stroked the girl's trembling back.

She wanted to see what this girl was up to.

*

Song Wei'an plays dumb and acts weak, narrowly escaping death. She quickly packs up her belongings, leaves Yanjing without looking back, changes her name, and starts over.

What did she care about the main plot or the ending? She'd rather run a little business and enjoy a peaceful life.

Set up a market stall, open a restaurant, start a tavern...

Song Wei'an grows her small business into a thriving enterprise, one step at a time.

There's just one thing that unsettles her:

Shen Lingyi, the heroine of the original story and her ruthless sister-in-law by marriage, has quietly bought a house right next to hers.

She arrives at Song Wei'an's door with a smile, takes her hand, and softly asks, "Why did you run away? Didn't you say I was all you had?"

#Sister-in-law, let me explain#

#If I say I'm not the real me, will you believe me?#

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Question: "What's it like to transmigrate into a revenge story where everyone, including the heroine, is evil, and your body's original owner is also the heroine's enemy?"

Song Wei'an: Thanks for asking. First, I ran, then she chased me.

In the end, I wanted to work, and she wanted to work on me.

P.S. The sister-in-law personally sends the Song family patriarch off at the very beginning, so read without worry.

A fake sister-in-law focused on her career vs. a sister-in-law by marriage who keeps trying to win her over

Farming and business management, slice of life, one-on-one romance, happy ending

Theme: Work with your own two hands to build a good life.